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The Veterinary History Society
VOLUME 12

Volume 12

Issue 1
CONTENTS

Papers and Articles
A Chronological digest of British Veterinary History, Part 3:1845-1848
Iain H Pattison

The Chillingham Wild White Cattle
Brian Ingham

“The Good Husbandman’s Jewel” by Joan Crawshey
John Clewlow

Animals, Almanacs and Astrology: Seventeenth Century Animal Health Care in England
Louise Hill Curth

Gustav Jaeger, ‘Healthy Horse and Dog Clothing’
John Clewlow

Some Difficulties with Rinderpest Vaccination in East Africa in the 1940s
Robert Mares

Francis John Carless MRCVS JP (1869-1945)
Oliver Knesl

Cruelty at the Shire Horse Show, from Veterinary Record 27/03/1897
Anon

The Discovery of Chiron’s Cave, A Prehistoric School of Medicine for Animals and Humans
Walter Hausmann and Wolfgang Jőchle

English Animal Husbandry in the 16th and 17th Centuries
G E Fussell

Collectors’ Corner Norman Comben Shakespeare’s Animals
E W Leighton

Book Review
The Military Mule in the British Army and Indian Army by Brian Nichols and others

The Mythical Zoo – An encyclopaedia of Animals in World Myth, Legend and Literature
by Boria Sax

Volume 12

Issue 2
CONTENTS

Papers and Articles
Robert Cadwallader Trigger JP FRCVS
John Clewlow

Medicines for Horses. A Medieval Veterinary Treatise
George R Keiser

A Chronological Digest of British Veterinary History, Part 4: 1849-1864
Iain H Pattison

The Royal Army Veterinary Corps and the Development of Oman after the Retreat from Aden
Robert G Mares

James Clark: Farrier to the King of Scotland
G E Fussell

Veterinary Bloodletting and the Status of Animals
Rod Preece

A Tale of Two Prints: Jeremiah Bridges and Edward Snape
John G P Wood

Institute of Animal Pathology Cambridge University 1923-40
J R M Innes

Herbert Henry Curson FRCVS DrMedVet (Hanover) 1892-1968
Oliver Knesl

Markham’s Plaster
Lesley Smith

Linda Warden, A commemorative Plaque

Collectors’ Corner
Norman Comben

Philosophers and Animals
Rod Preece

Book Review
The Royal Veterinary College, London. A Photographic Record from the 1890s ed Norman Comben

Cattle Plague: A History by C A Spinage

Volume 12

Issue 3
CONTENTS

Papers and Articles
A Chronological Digest of British Veterinary History, Part 5: 1865-1876
Iain H Pattison

Marion Dorset and Hog Cholera Research
Philip L Frana

Feline fortunes: Contrasting Perceptions of Cats
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

The Prodigious Mr Youatt: Some Unanswered Questions
Rods Preece

A Rhyming Veterinary Surgeon: Some Eighteenth-Century Remedies
G E Fussell

Contributions by British Graduates to the Early Development of Veterinary Medicine in Canada
L Brian Derbyshire

Sampson Gamgee: A Great Birmingham Surgeon
H M Kapadia

Book Review
Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 Outbreak and its Aftermath, Wellcome Trust

The Horse in the Ancient World
by Anne Hyland

Volume 12

Issue 4
CONTENTS

Papers and Articles
A Chronological Digest of British Veterinary History: Part 6 1879-1888
Iain H Pattison

Fever Cows and Measly Pigs, Veterinarians, Farm Animals and Public Health Scares in Victorian Britain
Sarah Wilmot

A previously Unpublished Letter by William Moorcroft
John Clewlow

The Dangerous Mare Goddess, Reflections on Equine Reproduction in Indian Mythology
Wolfgang Jőchle

Colonel Arthur George Todd CBE DSO MRCVS (1871-1954)
Oliver Knesl

Thomas Blundeville of Newton Flotman
G E Fussell

Collectors Corner Norman Comben Wellington Arch
Nick Blaney

News
British Library acquires a copy of Proprytees and Medicynes of Hors

Obituary
Valerie Carter

Book Review
History of the Surveillance and Control of Transmissible Animal Diseases
by Jean Blancou

Veterinary Medicine: A Guide to Historical Sources
by Pamela Hunter

Destination 5: Memoirs of an Irish Veterinarian
by Robert P Lee

Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An Ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland
by David E Allen and Gabrielle Hatfield

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